Quercus: linode

Running Quercus hosted by linode.com

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1. Obtain an account from linode.com
2. Log in to the account and create an Ubuntu image
3. Log into your linode and install the following packages:

   apt-get install ubuntu-minimal ubuntu-standard sun-java6-jdk mysql-server postfix iptables

4. Download Resin Open Source [1]

   wget http://www.caucho.com/download/resin-3.1.6.tar.gz

5. Untar Resin into /usr/local/share
6. Create a link from /usr/local/share/resin to the Resin directory
7. Edit /usr/local/share/resin/conf/resin.conf to change the host-deploy directory:

   <host-deploy path="/var/www/hosts">

8. Create a host directory: /var/www/hosts/<host-name>
9. Create the web application tree: /var/www/hosts/<host-name>/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF
10. Download Drupal:

    wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/drupal-6.2.tar.gz

11. Untar Drupal in /var/www/hosts/<host-name>/webapps/ROOT
12. Create the following resin-web.xml:

<web-app xmlns="http://caucho.com/ns/resin">
  <database jndi-name="jdbc/drupal">
    <driver type="com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource">
      <url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/drupal</url>
      <user>root</user>
      <password></password>
    </driver>
  </database>

  <servlet servlet-name="php"
           servlet-class="com.caucho.quercus.servlet.QuercusServlet">
    <init database="jdbc/drupal"/>
  </servlet>

  <servlet-mapping url-pattern="*.php" servlet-name="php"/>

  <welcome-file-list><welcome-file>index.php</welcome-file></welcome-file-list>

  <rewrite-dispatch>
    <dispatch regexp="\.(php|gif|css|jpg|png|ico|js)"/>
    <forward regexp="^/" target="/index.php?q="/>
  </rewrite-dispatch>
</web-app>

1. Create a database for Drupal in MySQL

   mysql -u root

   > CREATE DATABASE drupal;

2. Start Resin:

   java -jar /usr/local/share/resin/lib/resin.jar start
   

# Browse to your host and configure Drupal as directed.